Doctors Remove and Re-attach Six Organs in Breakthrough Cancer Surgery

by Thilaka on  March 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM Hospital News
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“It wasn’t so big, but it was in a very strategic location,” said Dr. Andreas Tzakis, director of the hospital’s Transplant Institute who was also a member of the operation team.

Ms.Zepp was diagnosed in May with leiomyosarcoma, a rare type of tumor that grows on smooth, involuntary muscles, which include the walls of blood vessels.

Ms.Zepp who was off a ventilator within a day of the operation said, "I feel like I'm alive. I ate a big lunch today. I feel like I have a life. I even invited Dr. Kato to my 100th birthday."

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